Month: October 2018

Tests conducted at Northumbria University show drinking concentrated No 1 Rosemary Water improves cognitive performance Findings published by scientists at ...

Most people don’t know the difference between OCD and OCPD

BINGHAMTON, NY - The general public has trouble understanding differences between obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), ...

Three health professionals Named 2018 National Academy of Medicine Fellows

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected three outstanding health professionals for the class of 2018 NAM ...

Arctic sea ice decline driving ocean phytoplankton farther north

Credit: NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Phytoplankton blooms that form the base of the marine food web are expanding ...

UC San Diego Health’s Lucila Ohno-Machado elected to National Academy of Medicine

Credit: UC San Diego Health Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego ...

UIC scholar selected as National Academy of Medicine fellow

Credit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected the University of Illinois at Chicago's Dima Qato to ...

Use of tobacco & marijuana products frequently featured in hip-hop music videos

Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Over the past decade, hip-hop music has become a world-wide phenomenon and, in 2017, surpassed rock ...

Engineering professor focusses on antifouling to make life easier with medical implants

AKRON, OH - Oct. 15, 2018 - Jie Zheng, Ph.D., a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor at The University of ...

An RNA key that unlocks innate immunity

RNA has long been the neglected middle child of biomolecules, the go-between between DNA, which encodes the cell's instructions, and ...

A new mechanism for how animal cells stay intact

Credit: Manu Prakash Almost eight years ago, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash was looking for a way to watch every ...

Did mosasaurs hunt like killer whales?

Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Did prehistoric sea creatures called mosasaurs subdue prey by ramming them with their bony ...

Goldilocks principle in biology — fine-tuning the ‘just right’ signal load

Credit: Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Simon Kelly and Simona Radutoiu. In the fairy tale "Goldilock and the Three Bears", the girl ...

Tropical moths in the mountains are larger

Credit: (Photo: Gunnar Brehm/FSU Jena) Jena, Germany (12.10.18) Researchers from three universities have measured more than 19,000 tropical moths from ...

Quantifying evolutionary impacts of humans on the biosphere is harder than it seems

Credit: Andrew Hendry Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted ...

Calm the immune system, halt premature birth

Premature birth is the leading cause of infant death and disability in the U.S., and costs billions in dollars and ...

Classifying microbes differently leads to discovery

Changing the way microbes are classified can reveal similarities among mammals' gut microbiomes, according to a new study. The study, ...

Is the next big step in cancer therapy personalized vaccines?

Credit: UC San Diego Health Tamara Strauss has been living with high-grade, stage IV pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer for more than ...

Cancer stem cells use normal genes in abnormal ways

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center CDK1 is a "normal" protein - its presence drives cells through the cycle of ...

Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling

A new large-scale hydroeconomic model, developed by the Water Program at IIASA, will allow researchers to study water systems across ...

Liver-on-a-chip, the ideal test environment for CRISPR